Ally Carter Quotes
It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.
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Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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The wise are above books.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
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A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.
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Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept?
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Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
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I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.
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As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.
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Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and your work profane? Then your mind is separated: from itself, from oneness, from the Tao.
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The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
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It was so rare to find someone who was both so young and so wise, both so fresh and so jaded.
